How does a MegaSquirt compare to having my car Chipped?
It is possible to get many of the same performance benefits of the MegaSquirt by having your car chipped IF the tuner chipping your car has your car onsite and custom tunes the map for your specific configuration on a steady state/load bearing dyno. If you are not the hands on type, or you don’t plan to EVER modify your car/engine again, then this is not a bad option. If you do ever mod your car again it will likely need to be re-chipped, on a dyno by a qualified tuner, to get the maximum performance out of it. If you simply send your ECU off to a chipping company who is supposed to load a map on your car that was NOT designed specifically for your car on a dyno by a qualified tuner then you are simply not going to get the maximum performance possible out of the engine. They simply can’t do it– they have to make alot of assumptions with no scientific testing on YOUR car. However, if you really want to take control of things, if you do have plans to further modify your car and you don’
It is possible to get many of the same performance benefits of the MegaSquirt by having your car chipped IF the tuner chipping your car has your car onsite and custom tunes the map for your specific configuration on a steady state/load bearing dyno. If you are not the hands on type, or you don’t plan to EVER modify your car/engine again, then this is not a bad option. If you do ever mod your car again it will likely need to be re-chipped, on a dyno by a qualified tuner, to get the maximum performance out of it. If you simply send your ECU off to a chipping company who is supposed to load a map on your car, or buy a canned tune online to load on the chip yourself you’re likely not going to get the results you’re after. In either case that tune/chip was NOT designed specifically for your car on a dyno by a qualified tuner so you are simply not going to get the maximum performance possible out of the engine. They simply can’t do it– they have to make a lot of assumptions with no scientif
